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Can An Almost-82-Year-Old Male Ilocano Work From Homer (WFH) Deliver Excellent Editing Results With Technical Manuscripts In English Via Microsoft Word? Asking For A Friend!

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From my personal experience dating back to 1976, manuscripts for technical journals have mostly 3 problems: missing parts, incomplete or poor reasoning, and problematic grammar. Whatever your target journal is, I can help you based on my varied editorial works (plural) in the last 46 years. (Image sources: “5 Types” from iLovePhD, ilovephd.com ; (“Write, Edit” from Washington University, icts.wustl.edu ) ANN asks, “What Are The Major Reasons For Scientific Manuscript Rejection?” and answers her own question ( Scholar Hangout , manuscriptedit.com ): Research paper writing is a specialized skill that all academicians have to learn. While publication is an essential part of the profession, the rates of rejection by journals are too high. Estimates suggest that for highly regarded journals like Cell, Nature , and Science , the rejection rate is as high as 97%! That is to say, of all the 100 submissions, only 3 make it through editorial and peer review scrutiny, and this is for top profes
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Can An Almost-82-Year-Old Male Ilocano Work From Homer (WFH) Deliver Excellent Editing Results With Technical Manuscripts In English Via Microsoft Word? Asking For A Friend!

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From my personal experience dating back to 1976, manuscripts for technical journals have mostly 3 problems: missing parts, incomplete or poor reasoning, and problematic grammar. Whatever your target journal is, I can help you based on my varied editorial works (plural) in the last 46 years. (Image sources: “5 Types” from iLovePhD, ilovephd.com ; (“Write, Edit” from Washington University, icts.wustl.edu ) ANN asks, “What Are The Major Reasons For Scientific Manuscript Rejection?” and answers her own question ( Scholar Hangout , manuscriptedit.com ): Research paper writing is a specialized skill that all academicians have to learn. While publication is an essential part of the profession, the rates of rejection by journals are too high. Estimates suggest that for highly regarded journals like Cell, Nature , and Science , the rejection rate is as high as 97%! That is to say, of all the 100 submissions, only 3 make it through editorial and peer review scrutiny, and this is for top pro
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Problematic With Your Technical Journal? Look No Farther For Your Editor In Chief Who Is A One-Man Band! Frank A Hilario, WFH

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These are digital times; the Internet came to the Philippines in 1991 – yet 31 years later, even in the state-financed University of the Philippines System (UP), there are very few technical journals – and UP hardly makes those publications come out on time! UP is snubbing desktop publishing (DTP)! I am an alumnus of UP Los Baños, BSA Ag Edu (1965); Civil Service Professional (1964); self-taught digital writer, editor, formatter, layout artist, desktop publisher (DTP) – the DTP copy saved as portable document format (pdf) being the final file before commercial printing. I’m your one-man-digital band in manuscripts & publications. I know of a government agency – nameless here – that used to publish a technical journal but has stopped for years and now wants to publish again. They have my email; if they want me to restart that journal, they have to “show me the money” – I mean, they should convince me that their office has allotted a budget for the regular publication of their jour
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Problematic With Your Technical Journal? Look No Farther For Your Editor In Chief Who Is A One-Man Band! Frank A Hilario, WFH

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These are digital times; the Internet came to the Philippines in 1991 – yet 31 years later, even in the state-financed University of the Philippines System (UP), there are very few technical journals – and UP hardly makes those publications come out on time! UP is snubbing desktop publishing (DTP)! I am an alumnus of UP Los Baños, BSA Ag Edu (1965); Civil Service Professional (1964); self-taught digital writer, editor, formatter, layout artist, desktop publisher (DTP) – the DTP copy saved as portable document format (pdf) being the final file before commercial printing. I’m your one-man-digital band in manuscripts & publications. I know of a government agency – nameless here – that used to publish a technical journal but has stopped for years and now wants to publish again. They have my email; if they want me to restart that journal, they have to “show me the money” – I mean, they should convince me that their office has allotted a budget for the regular publication of their j
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Book To Publish? For Help, You Came To The Right Place! Ask For FAH – Fast And Helpful

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Digital Publishing is one Smart Revolution today. If you’re looking for a desktop publisher for your book, look no further! First with the desktop computer and later with the personal computer (PC), I have desktop published (DTPed) about 20 books in the last 28 years. Yes, I’m an original aboriginal, Ilocano. Yes, I use Microsoft Word – while MS Word is not called a desktop publisher (DTP), my DTPing books via MS Word means I had mastered the ins-and-outs of this software a long, long time ago yet! And with my UPLB BS Agriculture major in Ag Edu, Civil Service Professional, I say I am a good student because I have a good teacher! Discovering will get you places. In 1994, I desktop published my first book, for UPLB professor Ofelia Karganilla Bautista (OKB) – her book was Introduction To Tropical Horticulture (Second Edition) published by Searca. The book’s Introduction in part says ( searca.org ): The revision of the first [edition] was done with the recognition that there have
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Book To Publish? For Help, You Came To The Right Place! Ask For FAH – Fast And Helpful

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Digital Publishing is one Smart Revolution today. If you’re looking for a desktop publisher for your book, look no further! First with the desktop computer and later with the personal computer (PC), I have desktop published (DTPed) about 20 books in the last 28 years. Yes, I’m an original aboriginal, Ilocano. Yes, I use Microsoft Word – while MS Word is not called a desktop publisher (DTP), my DTPing books via MS Word means I had mastered the ins-and-outs of this software a long, long time ago yet! And with my UPLB BS Agriculture major in Ag Edu, Civil Service Professional, I say I am a good student because I have a good teacher! Discovering will get you places. In 1994, I desktop published my first book, for UPLB professor Ofelia Karganilla Bautista (OKB) – her book was Introduction To Tropical Horticulture (Second Edition) published by Searca. The book’s Introduction in part says ( searca.org ): The revision of the first [edition] was done with the recognition that there
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Frank A Hilario, Your Digital One-Man-Band Editor Of Manuscripts & Editor In Chief Of Publications

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Nobody’s offering personal work from home (WFH) digital services in writing, editing and desktop publishing on Facebook, so I have this day-old blog, “Digital Frank A Hilario” ( digfrankahilario.blogspot.com ). Yes, I am “Your Digital FAH – Friend And Helper.” Yes, I enjoy being a WFH. At home, I use 2 monitors: a   Lenovo 14-inch ThinkPad , Core i7, and a 20-inch ViewSonic . I set my Windows 10 to background slideshow, so images keep changing in both monitors, from thousands of photographs I have collected with my 10-year-old-now-missing Lumix FZ100 digital camera. Nice views if you can get it! Yes, I can help you digitally from A to I: Author, Blogger, Communicator, Desktop Publisher, Editor, Editor in Chief, Forest Conservation Advocate, Ghostwriter, Home-Based Contributor, and In-House Editor-Publisher. We begin. For manuscripts of (1) theses and dissertations, in Agriculture & related fields, and (2) technical papers for publication, here’s some advice: 1.      Title – D
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